AI battles

[Sarkiss]

Most horse archers and horse javelineers are given another hit point for autocalc this way in the next version. We fear that it may be too effective though.

horse archers should be able to kick some ass. all infantry army versus all HA imo should ideally be annihilated, or if its not take very heavy casualties.
silly question perhaps... but is terrain taken into consideration by auto resolve?

[Mediteran]

so um what do i have to do to make the auto resolve battles better? i dont understand that edu thing :D

[bovi]

so um what do i have to do to make the auto resolve battles better? i dont understand that edu thing :D

Then you'd probably better not.

horse archers should be able to kick some ass. all infantry army versus all HA imo should ideally be annihilated, or if its not take very heavy casualties.
silly question perhaps... but is terrain taken into consideration by auto resolve?

I don't think terrain is taken into consideration.

Ah, I think you missed the Guide update. Let me quote myself:



The global +5 is exactly meant to negate the huge bonuses chariots and elephants get in auto-resolve because of their own secondary hps. That said, being a one-man team it takes time to come up with very precise values, so these are rough suggestions, not completely thoroughly tested.

That global +5 will render our elephants rather useless in autocalc, as ours only have 2 extra hit points instead of vanilla's 10 or 12, I can't remember. Our chariots have no extra hitpoints for mounts (which seems like a bug actually, I'll ask about this in EBH).

Still, we could perhaps increase secondary hp by 1 round bout. This would reduce the effect of the HA's extra one, if we decide they get too hard-hitting with base 0.

[Watchman]

horse archers should be able to kick some ass. all infantry army versus all HA imo should ideally be annihilated, or if its not take very heavy casualties.

The spearman-archer tag-team was a wee bit of problem for them when properly used, though...

...well, okay, the combination of sufficient missile troops with heavy infantry in general when properly used, really. Ask the Parthians how much fun they had dealing with the Romans once the latter learned the lesson and stacked up on archers and slingers.

Or the Turks how nice the Crusader States' armoured spears - crossbows tactics were to face.

[Sarkiss]

The spearman-archer tag-team was a wee bit of problem for them when properly used, though...

...well, okay, the combination of sufficient missile troops with heavy infantry in general when properly used, really. Ask the Parthians how much fun they had dealing with the Romans once the latter learned the lesson and stacked up on archers and slingers.

Or the Turks how nice the Crusader States' armoured spears - crossbows tactics were to face.

i asked them ages ago and what they told me was all infantry army versus all HA should ideally be annihilated
no doubts, a substantial missile support is needed to successfully counter such a mobile hit and run force.
what pisses me off is to see how all phalanx (typically Ptolies, AS) army utterly destroy predominanetly missile, all cavalry army in auto resolve...

[Watchman]

what pisses me off is to see how all phalanx (typically Ptolies, AS) army utterly destroy predominanetly missile, all cavalry army in auto resolve...

Point.

[The Wandering Scholar]

This could be the reason that Egypt always expand but Synthia never do. Blatantly unbalanced.

[marodeur]

This could be the reason that Egypt always expand but Synthia never do. Blatantly unbalanced.

Synthia? What faction do you mean?

[Seyduna]

He wanted to write Scythia and meant Sauromatae, I guess :)